Chapter 231: Good start, MVP

Without Duncan, Chamberlain felt that the penalty area suddenly opened up, and he even became relaxed in the air he breathed, but the Spurs players on the floor were not so happy, they were just the opposite, and found that their restricted area suddenly became an iron barrier, or an iron wall.

Without Duncan, Parker, who just won the FMVP last season, was the centerpiece of the team, and he used Kent Thomas's cover to drive to the basket, and Chamberlain rushed up from the side and slapped his throws off the court.

The Warriors took advantage of the fact that no one in the Spurs penalty area launched a counterattack, Billups continued to attack the basket, and continued to feed Chamberlain, two attacks scored 2 points each, and then West forced Ginobili to not attack and turned to pass, but the Argentine has a problem that it is easy to make mistakes when he is too passionate, and this time he passed the ball directly to the referee's face.

didn't say it, the ball belonged to the Warriors, if Popovich hadn't rushed up to defend himself, the referees would have wanted to give Ginobili a technical foul: they thought this guy was retaliating, revenge for a malicious foul they blew Duncan just now.

Ginobili's grievance, he didn't dare to go up and explain, because his English was a little bad, once the hapless Papans Prairie Eagle went to chat with the referee, but the broken English was considered by the stuttering referee (Brandt) that he was sarcastic, so he gave him a technical foul.

The Warriors closed the gap again, and after the Spurs lost Duncan, the defense was a little unable to play, so they simply attacked hard, which happened to fall into the arms of the Warriors, and on the offensive end, they were not afraid of any opponent!

At the end of the first half, the Spurs held the lead, and thanks to three-pointers from Parker and Ginobili, they led the Warriors 61-54.

At the start of the second half, Duncan remained on the bench and didn't play because Parker was good enough. But the Spurs began to get into trouble, with Duncan and without Duncan, the gap is very big, when the outside is hot, this gap can be disguised, when they don't have a touch in the third quarter, the problem comes.

Chamberlain scored four points in a row on the inside, and then thanked the two sides for consecutive mistakes - substitute Ellis turned and turned the ball off the court, Parker broke through with the ball, and smashed the line with the ball without anyone defending, Billups seized the chaotic opportunity to make a long-range shot and cut down three points, so that the two sides were tied at 61.

Parker gritted his teeth and hit the basket, and finally won the opportunity, Harrington's poor defense turned into a foul, and the magic was that the French sports car missed both free throws, the Spurs did not score in the first 6 minutes, but the Warriors did not seize this opportunity, the hoop seemed to be locked by God suddenly, both teams were playing iron, and for a while, the ATT center was full of iron sounds.

Popovich couldn't stand it and called a timeout and replaced Duncan with him.

As soon as Duncan came on the court, Evans followed, and he smiled at Shi Fohan: "Sorry, Tim, it was a misunderstanding, can you forgive me?" ”

Duncan glanced at him coldly, but after all, the stone Buddha was kind, so he said angrily: "Even if you are unintentional, I will kill you next time." ”

Evans smiled in surprise: "Have you forgiven me?" ”

Duncan nodded reluctantly, but Evans smiled and hugged Duncan, and the audience burst into warm applause, touched by the friendship on the field. But Chamberlain, who was next to him, clearly heard that when Duncan and Evans hugged each other, Evans said: "Tim, be careful of your, my thick and hard feel it, my buddy is going to make your full of wounds!" ”

Chamberlain almost burst into tears when he heard this, and Duncan also knew that he had been tricked by this simple-looking black guy, and his angry eyes were round, which made Chamberlain can't help but admire Evans, who can make the stone Buddha angry like this, and Evans can do it in the NBA.

Duncan wanted revenge, hit Evans with his back and turned to shoot, Evans couldn't prevent him, but when he jumped up, the ball flew out of the court but was sniped by Chamberlain, and the racket flew off the court with a direct slap, and a big hat came again.

Then the Spurs missed, Billups assisted Ellis on a mid-range shot, and Duncan finally launched a counterattack, and he made a shot from the wing to help the Spurs break the scoring drought, but by this time the Spurs had already trailed the Warriors 63-65.

The shooting percentage of the two teams still did not improve, but on the Warriors' side, Chamberlain had the advantage under the basket, and Kent Thomas was not his opponent at all, he first grabbed the frontcourt rebound and scored a layup, and then turned around Thomas with his back to make the opponent foul and got two free throw opportunities, and hit all of them, and waited until Billups stole Parker and assisted Ellis to make a layup, so that the Spurs fell behind the Warriors 63-71.

Popovich called a timeout with a grim face, and he redeployed his tactics and replaced Oberto from the court, while Billups was rested on the Warriors' side, and Luis came on the floor. Parker got rid of Billups' entanglement, and in the face of the same attribute Luis, he used Ginobili's cover layup to score, and then broke through again to attract Chamberlain to make up the defense and gave the ball to Duncan, who turned and made a layup.

Chamberlain's volcanic attribute erupted, and when Louis made a quick break to pass Harrington to the bottom line, the ball slipped, but Chamberlain happened to pass by, and after receiving the ball, in the face of Parker's steal, he had a flash of inspiration in his mind and changed direction with a crotch dribble, and after passing Parker, he changed direction again in the face of Duncan, and rushed directly to the basket to dunk and win.

This offense is beautiful, and this is not the end, Duncan missed Harrington's jump shot Harrington picked up the rebound, Ellis missed the long shot, Chamberlain jumped up from behind Duncan and grabbed the ball first, and forced Duncan to make up for a dunk and smash the ball into the hoop, so that the Warriors became the ones who controlled the situation.

Luis then fouled Duncan on a basket, and he hit both free throws to give his team an 81-72 lead that was close to double digits at the end of the third quarter.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Chamberlain had to temporarily go to the bench to rest, the Spurs seized the opportunity to attack the basket, Duncan handsomely played a back-to-back single, Evans had no choice but to reach out and foul him down, Duncan made two free throws.

Seeing that he only rested on the bench for a minute, Chamberlain appeared again, his sudden departure from the court suddenly disrupted the rhythm of the game, and the Spurs were a little unable to touch the opponent's tactics for a while.

Parker's physical strength was a little unable to keep up, and his pull-up jump shot was missed again, and West grabbed the rebound himself and made a fast-break layup, and the Warriors firmly controlled the situation and forced the Spurs into the abyss of defeat step by step. When Chamberlain scored with a hook to the basket, the Spurs were beaten bitterly, trailing the Warriors by a 75-92 margin that had never been done before.

But the players on both teams were a little exhausted, and then the two sides continued to play iron, and Chamberlain missed a basket run, and the old Nelson had to replace him off the court again - this is a series, not a knockout game!

Without Chamberlain, the Warriors' restricted area immediately turned into a sea, Parker made a layup, Duncan seized the opportunity to score consecutive points, the Spurs began to chase points, the Warriors no one could limit Duncan who was doing his best, Shi Fo cut into the basket after hitting a shot in the high post, Ginobili broke through the ball to him, and he crashed into Harrington to complete an easy layup.

West hit the basket and was blocked by Duncan, but the mad dog kid had nothing else but a big heart, he grabbed the ball again and threw it again, which caught Duncan off guard and finally helped the team cut two points, so that the Warriors maintained the lead over the Spurs 96-91.

Nelson Sr. couldn't let the situation continue, this was the home of the Spurs, anything was possible, and so Chamberlain came on.

After the break, everything was different, Chamberlain took the initiative to attack and caused Oberto to foul, and after making one of two free throws, he grabbed an offensive rebound of his own and scored a straight dunk in the box.

Then Billups hit a shot, the Warriors dominated the order on the court, and the Spurs wanted to disrupt the rhythm of the Warriors several times, but unfortunately it is not Davis who is good at chaotic battles that controls the Warriors now, but Billups, who was born in the Iron Pistons, Billups controls the rhythm steadily and keeps the team ahead.

In the final moments, Ginobili hit a three-pointer from Parker's pass, but it was too late, and in the end, the Spurs lost to the Warriors 96-102.

The Warriors got off to a good start, and it was still the opponent's home court, and after the game, Chamberlain took off his jersey and shook it around vigorously to celebrate the victory, and West, Billups and others also looked happy.

Chamberlain played extremely well in this game, scoring 30 points, 18 rebounds and 6 blocks on 13-of-23 shooting, while Duncan had 25 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks against Duncan.

This ending made the Texas media change their complexion: "Who can deal with this little monster on the inside in the future?" Is it really just going to have to wait for Portland's super-center to get fit? ”

This season's Trail Blazers failed to make the playoffs, and the champion Lang Oden is still recovering from an injury, but it is not all bad that he does not play, at least it gives the Warriors opponents a fantasy that Oden's strength is comparable to Chamberlain, and they are waiting, waiting for the day when Oden will return and then fight Chamberlain.

The eastern team is more miserable: there is a Chamberlain in the west who can't bear it, if Oden is also a super center of this level, then what will the east eat in the future?

There is another thing that frustrates the Eastern team and fans, and that is that the MVP selection is out, and there is still nothing going on in the East:

Half an hour after the game between the Warriors and the Spurs, the Los Angeles Times took the lead in reporting on the official website that Kobe Bryant became the regular season MVP of this season, and Peter Pan won the first MVP in his life.

Then, in the early morning of May 7, the NBA officially announced the results of the 2007-08 regular season Most Valuable Player (MVP), and the Lakers' boss Kobe Bryant was elected. In the selection, Bryant received 82 first-place votes with a total score of 1,105 points. Chris Paul of the Hornets came in second, while Chamberlain relied on his heroic performance in the playoffs to win the spot of the Tanhua Show with a high score of 670 points, and he is only a little over 19 years old this year!

In the regular season this season, Bryant averaged 28 per game. 3 points, second on the league's scoring charts, and he shot 45 from the field. 9 percent, 84 percent from the free-throw line and 36 from three-point range. 1%, plus he averages 6 per game. 3 rebounds, 5. 4 assists and 1. 8 steals were recorded.

Under Kobe's leadership, the Lakers won 15 more games than last year, and even more commendally, the Lakers also won the 19th Pacific Division championship in franchise history. Of course, it is more appropriate to say that all of this has been achieved in another way: under the leadership of Kobe Bryant and with the help of Pau Gasol......

Although he has been in the league for 11 years, Kobe Bryant, who is 6'6" tall, has never been the regular season MVP, and this election is the first time in his career. Kobe Bryant is the youngest player in NBA history to score 20,000 points and the 16th player to reach a career total of 21,000 points and 4,000 assists. Bryant was also named Western Conference Player of the Week three times this season (Jan. 14, March 3, April 7) and Western Conference Player of the Month twice (February and April).

The MVP is voted for by 126 sports journalists in the U.S. and Canada, and is judged by the same rules as the other awards, with 10 points for the first vote, 7 points for the second vote, 5 points for the third vote, 3 points for the fourth vote, and 1 point for the fifth vote. The top five in the poll were Kobe Bryant, Hornets' Chris Paul (889 points), Warriors' Chamberlain (670 points), Celtics' Kevin Garnett (438 points) and Magic's Cavaliers' LeBron James (60 points).